Liquid Capital Corp., a Canada-based franchisor specializing in alternative financing, has launched a supply chain payment Program.

Winning the game in demand management is a yard-by-yard gain. There may be some super long passes and some genius calls, but by and large, making progress requires granular visibility of the market, and software that can understand the data and, like a great quarterback, call the shots in a timely way.

Foxfire, a vendor of warehouse-management system (WMS) software, has made available Foxfire Inventory Pro.

As smartphones embrace always-on, ubiquitous location, location-based sensor fusion will become a standard feature.

One of the new buzzwords in the demand planning arena is demand sensing. Developed around 2003, demand sensing has slowly been grabbing the interest of the CPG, energy, food, beverage, and chemical industries. Often viewed as an alternative to demand management, demand sensing is anything but. Let's compare the two.

The Washington State Legislature passed a measure on Saturday to extend nearly $9bn in tax breaks for Boeing through 2040 in an embattled effort to entice the company to locate production of its newest jet, the 777X, in the Seattle area.